How might wilderness affect the Border Patrol and their ability to do their job?
It wont. Appropriate agency personnel may enter a designated wilderness area for reasons of public safety or national security (this includes motorized access by the Border Patrol). Aircraft overflights, which the Border Patrol uses to survey and monitor border traffic, would not be affected by wilderness designation. 24. What about using motorized equipment for emergencies? While the Wilderness Act prohibits the general use of motorized equipment or vehicles in wilderness, the law clearly allows land managers to use motorized equipment in the case of emergencies such as search and rescue and firefighting as well as for insect and disease control. For example, helicopters may be used to evacuate an injured person from a Wilderness area. 25. Will the BLM get more money to manage Wilderness? Wilderness designation invariably brings more agency resources to the area. A Wilderness designation also places an area within the prestigious National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS), and is g
